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November, 2019 | SAGE Publications, Inc

Culturally Alert Counseling

A Comprehensive Introduction

Third Edition
Garrett J. McAuliffe - Old Dominion University, USA
584 pages | November, 2019 | SAGE Publications, Inc
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Culturally Alert Counseling: A Comprehensive Introduction is a reader-friendly introduction to the cultural dimensions of counseling and psychotherapy. Editor Garrett McAuliffe, along with international experts in their fields, provides an accessible presentation of culturally alert counseling techniques that broadens the discussion of culture from ethnicity and race to include social class, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. Culture is defined broadly in the text, which features a mindful exploration of seven ethnic groupings, inclusive of all people within dominant and non-dominant cultural groups. The extensively revised Third Edition includes two new chapters on counseling immigrants and refugees and counseling military populations, exposing students to complex cultural developments. With the help of this text, readers will leave informed and ready to begin practice equipped with both a vision of the work and practical skills for effectively implementing it.

Preface to the Third Edition
Acknowledgments
About the Editor
About the Contributors
PART I: KEY CONCEPTS
1. Culture and Diversity Defined
2. Culture: Clarifications and Complications
3. Social Justice and Advocacy
4. Ethnicity
5. Conceptualizing Race and Racism
PART II: MAJOR ETHNIC GROUPINGS
6. African Americans
7. East and Southeast Asian Americans
8. Native Americans
9. White Americans of European Descent
10. Middle Eastern/North African (MENA) Ancestry
11. Latino/a Americans
12. South Asian Americans
PART III: SOCIAL GROUPS
13. Social Class
14. Gender
15. Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients
16. Religion and Spirituality
17. Individuals With Disabilities
18. Immigrants and Refugees: Facilitating Cultural Transition
19. Military Populations
PART IV: IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE
20. The Practice of Culturally Alert Counseling
Index
NEW TO THIS EDITION:
  • Two new chapters on counseling immigrants and refugees and counseling military populations expose students to timely and complex cultural developments.
  • All chapters have been updated with the latest research and literature, presenting new evidence of important social changes.
  • New illustrative case vignettes and examples and revised reader exercises go beyond cultural generalizations, providing students with significant discussions and opportunities for self-reflection.
  • Updated language for diversity (use of pronouns, etc.), crucial for counselors to master, reflects the evolving nature of language as it relates to culture.

 

KEY FEATURES:

  • Professionally-filmed, multicultural counseling demonstration videos on DVD (complete with Facilitator's Guide) are created by the author, bringing the context of the textbook to life. Companion DVDs sold separately.
  • National leaders in each topic offer cutting edge presentations with a deep but readable, and uniformly formatted, treatment of each cultural area.
  • Using a constructivist methodology, conceptual foundations beyond race and ethnicity are laid with discussions of social inequality, social justice, social diversity, and critical consciousness.
  • Cultural groupings in theory and clinical practice are inclusive of all people, both those in dominant and non-dominant cultural groups, so that counselors can work successfully with members of various cultural backgrounds.
  • Through many practical applications, such as cultural self-awareness activities, boxed anecdotes, engaging case studies, and much more, the book brings conceptual material into concrete clinical experience.
  • Activities emphasize cultural self-awareness, including assessment of attitudes toward diversity and revised, research-based cultural de-centering model that helps readers reduce their own ethnocentrism.
  • Key practices section includes an innovative application of narrative therapy to culture.